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Split & Organize PDF

Split a PDF by page range, pull out a single page, drop the ones you don't want, or burst one long file into a numbered set that downloads as a zip.

Document

Drop a PDF here

One document · it is read on this device and never uploaded

What to do

You get

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How to use

  1. Open the document in the Document box. Its size and page count appear on the file card, and a grid of page thumbnails fills in beside the controls.
  2. Pick What to do. Extract keeps only what you name, Delete keeps everything else, Rotate turns them where they are, Split makes a numbered set.
  3. Name the pages in Which pages, or press the thumbnails and let the field fill itself in. Preview pages opens any page full size without picking it.
  4. For a rotation, set Turn to 90° left, 90° right or 180°. Only the pages you named turn, and each turn is added to whatever the page already carried.
  5. For several files, choose Split. The page field steps aside and How to split offers Every N pages, Into N files and Custom ranges; the list of files you will get updates as you type.
  6. Press Make. The run can be cancelled, keeping the files already written. Then take them: Download the zip, or one file at a time from its own row.

About this tool

Four jobs sit behind What to do, and each one is a different way to split a PDF: extract pages, delete pages, rotate pages, or split the file into several files. Pick one, say which pages you mean, and the strip beside it names the file you will get, with its page count, before anything is written. The same ten-page scan can come back as pages 3 to 7 on their own, or as the whole thing minus the two blank sheets, or as five separate PDFs.

Pages are named with a range like 1-3, 5, 8-. Spans, single numbers and open ends all mix in the one field, where 8- reads as page eight through the end, and the field says what the range means against your real pages. For Extract and Rotate an empty field covers every page; for Delete it would remove them all, so Make waits for a range. Pressing thumbnails does the same job from the other direction, and the grid draws the operation on them: a deleted page reads out, a turned one carries its angle.

Split into files lists the files before you make them. Every N pages gives a file per run of N, the last one taking what is left. Into N files makes exactly the number you ask for, sharing the pages out so no two files differ by more than one: twelve pages into five comes out 3, 3, 2, 2, 2. Custom ranges takes something like 1-3, 4-9, 10-12 and says which pages land in no file. The parts come out named report-part-1of3.pdf and upward, one download each or together as report-split.zip.

Good to know

  • One operation per pass. Rotating two sideways pages and then pulling a range out of the result means running the file through twice, and if you want to reorder pages or slot in a page from somewhere else, that is what Organize PDF Pages is for.
  • Each part carries its own copy of the fonts and images the original shared, so a set of parts usually weighs a little more than the file they came from. The page says so when it happens.

Frequently asked questions

What does a range like 1-3, 5, 8- actually pick?

Three things at once. 1-3 takes the first three pages, 5 adds page five on its own, and 8- runs from page eight to whatever the last page happens to be. A page past the end is named in the field and left out, and a range that names no real page holds Make rather than handing you an empty document.

How do I save one page as its own file?

Type the page number by itself, say 4, with What to do on Extract. Make writes report-extract.pdf holding that page alone, at its original dimensions, and Download saves it. Pressing the fourth thumbnail does the same thing without typing.

Do the pages lose any quality, or pick up a watermark?

Neither. Pages are copied whole into the new document by pdf-lib, so text stays text, images keep their original resolution, and nothing gets re-encoded on the way through. Nothing is stamped on the output either.

Can I cut a long report into chapters of my own choosing?

That is what Custom ranges is for. Choose Split, then Custom ranges, and list the sections as 1-3, 4-9, 10-12. Each becomes its own PDF in the order you typed. Gaps are fine if some pages belong nowhere; the page names them so they are left out on purpose rather than by accident.

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